Gwyneth Paltrow will not pay the attorney fees she paid to effectively protect herself against a lawsuit by a 76-year-old retired optometrist who claimed she was at fault for beating him at a posh Utah ski hotel in 2016.
In a ruling released Saturday, a Utah ruling that attorneys for Paltrow and Terry Sanderson agreed to eliminate Paltrow’s attorneys’ fee factor. The 2019 counterclaim was dropped.
The ruling upheld the jury’s unanimous verdict that Terry Sanderson, the man who collided with Paltrow, was “100 percent at fault,” and awarded Paltrow the dollar she claimed in a countersuit. War seven years after the two crashed in a beginner race near the base of Deer Valley Resort in Utah.
Paltrow’s representatives were quick to answer questions about the final judgment or the money at stake. Neither aspect has publicly revealed how much it costs to sustain a year-long legal war with a team of lawyers, expert witnesses from around the world. United States and, by Paltrow, animated recreations in high resolution of his memories of the accident.
The eight-day legal war between the stars of “Shakespeare in Love” and “Ironman” last month has become the most-watched American celebrity trial since actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard clashed last year. Sanderson’s lawsuit accused Paltrow of negligence and beating him and then left the scene of the accident without making sure he was in good physical condition. It sought more than $300,000 in damages, a threshold in Utah civil court that allows parties to provide maximum evidence and record the longest list of witnesses.
Paltrow then countered for the token dollar and attorney’s fees, claiming Sanderson had beaten her and was chasing her to exploit her fame and celebrity.
“I felt that accepting a false claim compromised my integrity,” said the founder and CEO of Good Looks and Wellness Logo Goop.
Under the gaze of the court’s live television cameras and the scrutiny of enthusiasts and critics alike, Paltrow sat intently in the Park City courtroom during the proceedings last month and testified that at first, when the twist of fate occurred, she thought she had been “raped. “. “”
After the verdict, Sanderson’s lawyers said they were weighing whether to appeal the case or seek a new trial. Paltrow and her attorney said in separate statements that the counterclaim had more to do with her principles than the amount at stake. Delay in commenting on the final judgment.